do not run as administrator DCS unplayable todays update (19/3-25)

[Raffi75]

42 minutes ago, keisentraut said:

Here's the fix.  Youtube vid made by my flying partner:  

 

Thank you. I know about this fix. I use DCS Steam and I had to add to exceptions not only F-14, but also the download folder, because the installation files downloaded to it were deleted or quarantined, which is why the DCS installation was interrupted and I got the message: missing files.

I think this is not a good way to solve the problem. How long will it work? Eventually, there may come a time when everything will go to hell with a big bang.

[AndyJWest]

25 minutes ago, Raffi75 said:

How long will it work? Eventually, there may come a time when everything will go to hell with a big bang.

How long will it work? For as long as Defender etc allow users to add exclusions: which is going to be always, since it is a necessary function of AV software.

[sleighzy]

8 hours ago, maks said:

Dear ed team, facing same problems, system shut downs, cannot enter taskmanager, black screens, slow to even nil fps suddenly after patch! Tried prior patch again, and then no issues , smooth as butter! No hardware changes , no system changes…..no mods….. get even black screen when start up then able to get into a mission and then complete standstill , …..very strange, never had issues like that? Cannot attach log file for the moment but will asap

Brgds maks

Please raise a new post with your logs attached. It sounds like you have a different problem so shouldn’t hijack other people’s posts which are now solved. 

[Miro]

For me also DCS runnig maybye slower? Or maybye very choppy after latest update.

dcs.log

[Raffi75]

3 hours ago, AndyJWest said:

How long will it work? For as long as Defender etc allow users to add exclusions: which is going to be always, since it is a necessary function of AV software.

Do you know what a rhetorical question is?

[BJ55]

@Miro you have parked cores.

[Miro]

24 minutes ago, BJ55 said:

@Miro you have parked cores.

Thanks! I unparked them couple months ago, i think any windows update change my settings.

[Oilman100]

9 hours ago, maks said:

Dear ed team, facing same problems, system shut downs, cannot enter taskmanager, black screens, slow to even nil fps suddenly after patch! Tried prior patch again, and then no issues , smooth as butter! No hardware changes , no system changes…..no mods….. get even black screen when start up then able to get into a mission and then complete standstill , …..very strange, never had issues like that? Cannot attach log file for the moment but will asap

Brgds maks

Let me know if you find a solution, exactly the same issue since the patch

[jackd]

Tried all sorts of fixes which seemed to work for a while like core parking, cleaning some metashaders2 cache from saved games, getting latest nvidia drivers.

Now  i found a new solution when stutters re-appeared by disabling some unused usb driver with USBdeview.exe.  Again no stutters, but for how long ??

Edited March 21 by jackd

[maks]

Nope, tried again and again…..back to earlier update and all ok …….this new update seems not to work for me, tried the app for unparking , it went ok for 5min and then….pc crashed, black screen and very slow response on the menus, had to execute a cold restart of the pc because i could not exit dcs? …..will try to submit my logs tomorrow morning for both patches because something screwed up ….

[Miro]

1 hour ago, BJ55 said:

@Miro you have parked cores.

Thanks! I unparked them couple months ago, i think any windows update change my settings.

 

EDIT: Well my cores seems unparked, but parked, very strange...

[DA_FLY]

On 3/21/2025 at 10:07 AM, Skyracer said:

The game is totally unplayable at this stage. Just starting and Idling at the menu gives me severe lag spikes

Same here...

Just amazing...

Key binding gone as well))

Looks like  only 2 games in this Universe have problem with  core parking -DCS and Star Citizen

All  others works perfectly on my system.

 

[keisentraut]

I had this exact same issue.  However, I found that if I turned off my USB display devices (Winwing MFD).. the game ran 100% fine.  I tested with a buddy of mine who had the same issue with different model MFD USB displays.  Game worked fine for him once he turned off the USB displays.  If you have USB displays, turn them off and try the game against using just one screen.  Then report back here what you find.  I, personally, believe that the latest updated messed up the ability for DCS to handle these types of displays and still run the game.  Curious what you all find out.

Here's videos of DCS running with USB displays turned on and then turned off.  The difference for me was night and day.

 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cz9MfQ5li3PxpP9o1Z6tY8XzqT7yieRM?usp=drive_link

[sleighzy]

17 minutes ago, keisentraut said:

I had this exact same issue.  However, I found that if I turned off my USB display devices (Winwing MFD).. the game ran 100% fine.  I tested with a buddy of mine who had the same issue with different model MFD USB displays.  Game worked fine for him once he turned off the USB displays.  If you have USB displays, turn them off and try the game against using just one screen.  Then report back here what you find.  I, personally, believe that the latest updated messed up the ability for DCS to handle these types of displays and still run the game.  Curious what you all find out.

Here's videos of DCS running with USB displays turned on and then turned off.  The difference for me was night and day.

 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cz9MfQ5li3PxpP9o1Z6tY8XzqT7yieRM?usp=drive_link

If you're not already then read over and follow this thread, sounds like may be relevant to your findings as well.